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The Chairman.—If you can't read or write, who writes up these books for
your
?
A.--Well, bad writing does for these.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.--Then you can write bad writing?
A. Yes.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Then it is not true that you can't write and read ?
A. Yes.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.--If you cannot write how can you keep a register of all the burials at Mount Davis?
A.--Well, the undertakers have a meino.
Q.-
Then you copy from these Bills ?
A. Yes.
Q.-Well, then you can write?
A. Bad writing.
Q.-It doesn't matter whether it is bad or not. You are not going in for the M. A. degree.
Witness re-cautioned.
The Chairman-(examining and pointing to entry in one of the books produced by witness) Is this your handwriting?
A. Yes.
The Chairman. That it seems to me, is quite good handwriting ?
Fung Wa Chun. That is all right—very good handwriting,
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.—We can always ask Mr. Kwok In Un and Mr. Chau Siu Kee about you?
A. Well, I dont tell any lies. Get them to come up.
Q-Before you got the job did you not go to the Tung Wah Hospital with a letter from Mr. Lo Man Kai ?
A-I dont know about the letter.
Q-But did you take such a letter?
A. I dont know which letter. I dont know whether there was a letter or not.
Q-The letter introducing you to Tung Wah Hospital?
A.-It was several years ago. I dont remember.
The Chairman.-Would a man of your class have the impudence to go and apply for a billet at the Tung Wah Hospital at $18 a month without a letter of introduction from somebody?
A. The Directors know me.
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